FAQ for Law Reviews

What does receiving submissions through ExpressO cost for law reviews?
Nothing. It is a free service to law reviews. Authors (or their institutions) pay ExpressO to deliver manuscripts.
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How can our law review sign up?
You can sign up to receive ExpressO submissions by filling out our ExpressO Sign-up Form. We strongly encourage you to use a law review email address, not an editor's personal address.
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How are submissions delivered to us?
We send submissions out as email attachments. Editors may also retrieve and review submissions by accessing a dedicated Web site.
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Can I access articles submitted to our law review online? How do I do this?
Yes. Simply log on using the same email address to which submissions are sent and you will be granted online access to all ExpressO submissions for your journal.
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What are the advantages of downloading submissions from the dedicated Web site?
Many editors prefer to distribute submissions by assigning manuscripts to editors and directing them to the site over mailing manuscripts around. Additionally, unlike submission email in boxes, the Web site can never be "full". Submissions will never bounce.
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What if we are full and not accepting submissions? Can we suspend deliveries for a period of time?
Yes. Let us know your review is full for the season and provide a date you will begin accepting submissions. We will indicate to authors when you plan to reopen and hold submissions for you in the meantime.
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How do we change our account profile?
You can change the email address for submissions, file format preference, review subject areas, and whether or not you consider student submissions, by filling out our ExpressO Sign-up Form.
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Is it possible to send out a solicitation for a specific subject on ExpressO?
The answer is not yet. We would like to be able to offer such a service to law reviews but do not yet have the technology in place.
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What is the ExpressO Preprint Series and what rights do you hold on submitted papers?
The ExpressO Preprint Series is a working paper series. Bepress holds no copyright on these papers. No permission is needed from bepress to publish them. If an author asks us to remove his/her paper from the series we will do so.
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Do you facilitate receipt confirmation of ExpressO submissions?
Yes. We have made it as easy as possible for you to confirm receipt of a paper. If you are accessing papers from your dedicated site, downloading the manuscript automatically confirms and dates receipt within the user's ExpressO account. If you access the papers via email attachment, we ask that you click on a link in the email body, which also confirms receipt.
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We sent our reply intended for the author to ExpressO by mistake.
If the reply is a confirmation of receipt, it automatically appears in the user's account. If the reply is an offer to publish or a rejection, we forward it to the author.
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We seem to be having problems logging in. How do we remedy this problem?
If you have trouble logging in, i.e. you think that you have a valid account, but the system will not recognize it or send you your password, please:

  1. Double check you are using the correct email address, with the correct companion password,
  2. Double check that both the username and the password are spelled correctly (passwords are case sensitive).

If you are unsure of the password, please log in with your email address, and leave the password field blank: the correct password will be emailed to you.

If you continue to experience difficulties, please don't hesitate to sen an email to and we will help sort this out as soon as possible.
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Do you have manuscript management software that is integrated with ExpressO?
Yes we do. It is called LawKit, which is an annual subscription service. To find out more about this innovative publication database, you may visit the LawKit website, or contact with any questions you have.
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